Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.I am old.Walter

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

To the fool-king belongs the world.

Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?

Perfecting the past blurs your focus of the future.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.